USW Urges Broad Rewrite Of PSM Standard To Drop ‘Activity-Based’ Model

The United Steelworkers (USW) is urging OSHA to quickly propose and enact a sweeping overhaul of its process safety management (PSM) standard, arguing that the current “activity-based” model is inadequate and that the agency instead should require employers to show they have eliminated process safety dangers “to the greatest extent feasible.” In an undated letter -- the only such letter from a national labor group posted to OSHA’s PSM comment docket following a Nov. 14 deadline -- USW lays out...